Later that evening, after we had arranged everything, mum and I showered in our rooms and agreed to meet in the sitting room at 6:00pm. My room would have remained a beautiful mess, if mum had not forced me to arrange my clothes, school materials and other dumb stuffs. It actually had a small walk-in closet *yes, I agree, I was totally living in my own paradise*. When I wanted to get under the shower, I looked through the window and discovered that I was looking directly at the other house's bathroom and partly, the bedroom. If I was in my room, I would be staring at their bedroom directly. Not putting much thought into this, I reached to put on the shower but stopped suddenly. I hadn't seen a ghost *Calm down, my life is not an horror movie*, but I could swear that i saw a silhouette of a person moving in the bedroom of the next house. But, since the light was off and it was quite dark outside, I wasn't sure. I immediately blamed it on fatigue.
Ten minutes later, I was done with my bath and in my hello kitty pyjama shorts and top. *Okay I lied, don't crucify me, I'm still obsessed with hello kitty*. I had almost reached the door when I caught the silhouette of a person moving again in the next house's bedroom from the corner of my eyes. When I turned to look fully, everything was still.
"That was creepy", I whispered to my self. Shaking off the unsettling feeling, I turned back to the door and stepped out, locking it safely before I went downstairs to meet mum.
We were still deliberating on ordering pizza or eating cereal as dinner, as mum was too tired to cook and I was practically a disaster in the kitchen, when we heard a knock on the door. We actually shrugged it off and mum continued to give 1001 reasons why we should order pizza. *I know you are like "what the hell!", that's exactly what I said. You know, like minds think alike and other shit*. The knock sounded again and mum ordered me to get it. She ordered me because I had flopped on the couch, pretending to fall asleep but she was having none of it. I finally stood up and walked in a very slow pace to get the door. I opened it and was shocked to see no one there, I was on the verge of slamming the door shut in anger, when a black converse class foot stopped it.
I looked from the foot, to the black jeans, black hoodie *negative much* and finally settled on the face of the body in the clothes I had just criticized. *Did I just say face? add gorgeous, no, add sinfully gorgeous!* I was pretty sure my mouth was hanging open as I took in the very handsome face of the guy standing in front of me. He had tousled dirty blonde hair that I wanted to run my fingers through...*Diana, calm your horses girl, you just met this guy*. He had perfectly arched eyebrows and his eyes.....it was oceanic, bluish-green in colour, I could have spent eternity gazing into his eyes but my eyes finally landed on his straight nose and then his plump pink lips that I wanted to....*Okay girl, that's enough*.
"Are you done ogling me?"
Holy Macaroni!, his voice was ethereal, very deep and...I couldn't finish that thought as a finger snapped in front of me. I regained consciousness *literally!* and when I saw the smirk playing on his lips, the remnants of my thoughts vanished and I scowled at him.
"Wao! calm down little tiger" He looked me up and down with that stupid smirk and said
"or rather, kitten".
To say I was shocked is an understatement and to me most chagrin, I kinda liked the nickname. If I wasn't in front of a gorgeous piece of meat like him, I would have banged my head against the wall for having those thoughts about him. He stretched his hand and that was when I noticed that he was holding a box with what looked like homemade pie in it.
"I am Jace Cameron and I live next door, mum requested I deliver this". He pointed to the box and dumped it in my hands and turned on his heels without even waiting for my reply. Me, being the stupid me was just staring at him with a gobsmacked look on my face.
"Hey kitten, you have drool on the side of your mouth" and he finally walked away leaving me in my crazy state. I wonder how ridiculous I looked, with a crazy ass expression on my face and a box of pie in my outstretched hands, standing outside my house in a skinny hello kitty PJ. *Yeah, I must have looked horrendous*.
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